We had fun in the snow today.

(playing in the playroom)

Alex: I want silly music.

Alex: I’m dancing fast, Daddy! And turning around! And spinning!

Alex: We don’t stick to the ceiling.
Daddy: We don’t stick to the ceiling?
Alex: No, we don’t walk on the ceiling. And we don’t stick to the ceiling. We walk on the floor. We stick to the floor. If the ceiling comes down we will go up there and …
[There was much more to this story, but Alex talked too fast to get it all written down.]


Daddy: Who's Mommy’s daddy?
Alex: Daddy.
Daddy: Who's Mommy’s daddy?
Alex: Daddy.
Daddy: Am I Mommy’s daddy?
Mommy (smiling): Yeah. My sugar daddy.
Alex: I'm a chicken daddy!
Claire: A chicken. Daddy.


(playing in the snow)

Alex: I'm gonna drive around for a little bit, and when I'm done I'm gonna throw snow. All over Daddy!

Alex (to Daddy): Throw a snowball at that tree.
Daddy: What tree?
Alex (pointing vaguely toward the trees): That tree.
(Pause.)
Alex (pointing to the trees again): Uh, maybe that tree.

Daddy: Do you want me to throw this snowball at the tree, or at Mommy?
Alex (smiling): At Mommy.


Alex (loudly): Oohwah oohwah oohwah!
Alex: You want me to do it quiet?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex (whispering): Oohwah oohwah oohwah.
Daddy: Good.
Alex: You want me to do it loud?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex (loudly): Oohwah oohwah oohwah!
Alex: Was that loud?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: You want me to do it slow?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex (whispering): Oohwah oohwah oohwah.


(bath time)

Alex: When I grow bigger I can take a shower in my bathroom and when I grow more bigger I can take a shower in Mommy and Daddy’s bathroom.

Alex: We had fun in the snow today.
Daddy: Yeah, we had fun. I had fun in the snow today.
Alex: What did we do?
Daddy: What did we do?
Alex: What did we do?
Daddy: I don’t know, what did we do? I don’t remember.
Alex: Um... We throwed snowballs!
Daddy: That’s right, we threw snowballs!
Alex: And I made a track back to the other track.
Daddy: You did, you made a track all around the yard!
Alex: And then I came back to my mom and dad.

Alex: Science Kid went down the drain and now you can't see him because I closed it.
Daddy: Oh, Science Kid! Why did he go down the drain?
Alex: Maybe Super Why’s tryin’ to fix my trash can because it’s a little bit broken down.

Claire's Vocabulary (215)

Abby
again
Alex
all done
animal
apple
applesauce
Ashleigh
away
baby
back
bag
ball
balloon
banana
basket
bang
bath
beans
bear
beep
Bert
bib
bike
blanket
blueberries
boat
Bobo
bone
boo-boo
book
box
broccoli
broke
brush
bubble
bug
bump
bye-bye
cake
car
cards
carry
cat
cereal
chair
cheek
cheese
chick
chip
chocolate
choo-choo
Claire
clip
clock
close
clothes
coffee
cold
cookie
cough
cow
crayon
cream
crying
cup
Daddy
Dana
dance
dark
diaper
did it
dinosaur
dog
done
down
drops
dry
duck
dump
ear
Elly
Elmo
Ernie
eye
face
fall
fast
fish
five
floor
flower
food
foot
fork
frog
gate
get it
giraffe
go
goat
Grandma
Grommie
Grover
hair
hand
hat
help
hi
hippo
horse
hot
hungry
ice
in
jacket
Juju
jump
key
kids
kitchen
lap
light
Mallory
Mama
man
me
Meg
milk
monkey
moon
moose
more
mouth
Nana
nap
napkin
night-night
no
nose
nugget
oh
on
one
open
Oscar
outside
owl
paint
pants
pear
pee-pee
penguin
pig
pillow
plate
play
playroom
please
poop
Pop
push
quack
rock
room
rug
run
sack
see
sheep
shirt
shoe
shot
sit
sleeve
snack
sock
spoon
sticker
stool
stroller
tape
that
this
Thomas
throw
thumb
tiger
toast
tongue
track
train
trash
tray
truck
tummy
turn
turtle
TV
two
uh-oh
up
Virginia
waffle
walk
wall
want
water
wet
wipe
woof
wow
yeah
yes
Zoe

Claire! It snowed a little bit! Did you know it snowed a little bit? Outside? Snow doesn’t go in the house. It snows outside.

Alex: Claire! It snowed a little bit! Did you know it snowed a little bit? Outside? Snow doesn’t go in the house. It snows outside.


Mommy: Do you need to go to the potty?
Alex: Um no, because this pull-up is, um, dry.


Alex: Oh! It snowed in my backyard! It snowed in my backyard.


Alex: That's my friend Oakley! That’s my friend Oakley’s house.


Alex: No more dinosaur PJ bottoms, I want my superhero bottoms.


Daddy: Okay, Superhero PJ Bottoms Man.
(Pause.)
Alex: I'm Alex.


(Alex and Daddy are snuggled up on the sofa.)
Alex: Yay, we're together! I'm with my daddy!


Daddy: Are you drawing a picture?
Alex: No, I just drawed a picker.
Daddy: Oh, what’s that a picker of?
Alex (laughing): Oh, a picture. Sorry.


(Alex and Claire are opening Mommy’s box of running gear.)
Alex: You wanna see, us running? Okay, Daddy?


(Alex and Claire are looking out the window at the snow.)

Alex: Why are we blocked? We can’t go outside!
Claire: Oh no! ‘Side!

Alex: Ah, bird!
Claire: Bird!


Alex: Computer, stop it!
(Pause.)
Claire: ‘Puter, stop it! Stop it!


Alex: Alex needs email!


Alex: Is there a Big Bad Wolf outside?
Daddy: Is there?
Alex: Is there a Big Bad Wolf, Daddy?
Daddy: I don’t think so.
Alex: I see one!
Daddy: Oh, then I guess there is one.
Alex: No. My Mommy and Daddy take care of me, because I’m not scared.


Alex: Look at us, Daddy!
Claire: Uh us! Uh us!


Alex: When I was bigger, I could take a shower. With Mommy and Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And I could go for a run with Mommy with my running stuff.
Mommy: Yeah. I can’t wait until you can run with me. Maybe when you’re five or six you can run? Couple years?
Alex: Maybe when I’m bigger.
Mommy: Well you’ll be bigger in a couple years.


(During nap, Alex is playing in his bed.)
Alex: Ernie, don’t close your mouth. Because we have cookies.
(Pause.)
Ernie: I’m not hungry.
Ernie: I’m not hungry, Alex.
Alex: But you are hungry.


Claire: Cold.
Mommy: Is it cold, Claire? A jacket will help.
Claire: Jacket hope. Jacket hope.


Alex (pointing): Look at that big pile o’ snow over there, in the family room where I’m pointing!


Alex: Are you gonna stay in here?
Daddy: No, I’m gonna go outside. And play!
Alex: Yayyy! I’m excited, Daddy.


(After playing in the snow, Claire and Alex are wearing their new slippers.)
Alex: Look at my slippers!
Daddy: That’s great!
Alex: They’re so squishy!
Claire: Uh slippers!


(playing inside)

Claire (patting the Cookie Monster and Elmo stuffed animals): Nigh-nigh.
Claire (patting Cookie Monster): Pat.
Daddy: Yeah, pat!
Claire (patting Elmo): Elmo. Pat.

Alex (playing with a Matchbox car): This is Murder, Daddy, he drives around.
Daddy: Murder?
Alex: Yeah, Murder. Murder is a friend, like Thomas.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Do you know? It’s Carter. It’s Carter.
Daddy: It’s Carter?
Alex: Yeah. It’s like Carter at school. That’s my friend.
Alex (to Claire): Yeah it’s Carter. Carter is a friend.
Claire: Friend. Carter. Carter.

Alex (playing with Matchbox cars): I don’t know where Uncle Ed is. This is, um, Sir Topham Hatt!

Alex: Where are you, Daddy?
Daddy: I’m right here!
Alex: I thought you were doing laundry!
Daddy: I’ll be right back!

Alex: Kuh-kuh-kuh coach. Coach starts with C.
Mommy: Good job, Alex!

Alex: C starts with you, Claire. Kuh kuh kuh Claire.

Alex: This is Peter.
Daddy: Peter?
Alex: Yeah, Peter the car.

Alex: Claire doesn’t know Peter. Claire, can you say “Peter”?
Claire: Peter.
Alex: That’s it!

Alex: I’m getting all my trains.
Claire: Trains. Trains. Trains.
Alex: Trains! It starts with a T!
Mommy: Good job, buddy!
Claire: Trains. Trains.

Claire: Walk, baby. Walk, baby.
Alex: Claire’s saying “Walk, baby!”
Daddy: Yeah!

Claire (patting the stuffed animals, hard): Nigh-nigh. Nigh-nigh. Nigh-nigh.

Claire (swinging the stuffed animals around): Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock.

Alex: This is a blanket.
Claire: Blanket.
Alex: This is a blanket, for everyone.

Alex: Can you get Carter, Claire? Carter’s right there.
Claire: Carter.
Alex: Thank you, Claire. Carter’s on a mission.

Claire (raising and lowering Elmo and Cookie Monster, alternately): Up, down, up, down, up, down.

Claire, dance with me!

(nap time)
Daddy: Okay buddy, you get some rest.
Alex: Okay. If I not want to, then I can play with my trains, and if I done playing with my trains, then I can play with my big friends.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: And if I not sleepy.


Alex: Claire, dance with me!


Alex: Look at me, Daddy, I'm flapping like a bird! Tweet tweet!


Alex: The pizza was hot, and I blowed on it, and when I blowed on it a lot it was not that hot anymore.

When we were swinging at the playground, a man smoked.

(Alex realizes that Mommy has already left for work.)
Alex: Where's Mommy? Did I give her a hug and a kiss?


(Daddy is wearing his baseball cap sideways.)
Claire: Hat.
Alex: What's that?
Daddy: What?
Alex: What did you do it with? What happened to your hat?
Daddy: What?
Alex: Did you turn it around?
Daddy: Yeah.


Daddy: Hey, Alex? Daddy fixed your track.
Alex: Oh yay! Hooray for Daddy!

Alex: The hills are good.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Better if mommies and daddies help you put airports under it. (…) And boys can look at all kinds of things. In their house. That's what they do. That's what boys can do.


Daddy (to Alex and Claire): Hi, children.
Alex (to Daddy, smiling): Hi children.
Daddy: I'm not children.
Alex: You're... one... person.


(Daddy is explaining to Alex about the virus on his work computer.)
Daddy: ... So I will take it to work, so he can fix it.
Alex: And you will see a dinosaur?
Daddy: Yes, I’ll see a dinosaur.
Alex: And he will eat some sandwiches?


(Mommy is about to take Alex and Claire to the playground.)
Alex: Are we gonna go to the first playground, from yesterday? The old one? By our house?

Alex: My - um - my diaper didn't - leak.


(Mommy, Alex, and Claire return from the playground.)
Alex (to Daddy, very serious): When we were swinging at the playground, a man smoked. Daddy: Oh.
Alex: It was gross.
(Mommy laughs.)
Alex: It came out of his mouth and his nose.
Daddy: Ew.
Alex: And there was another man on that bench and he shouldn’t do that either.


(Daddy is telling Mommy about Alex’s sad morning.)
Alex (interrupting): I told Irmarion all about it at snack time, but he didn't understand, so I told Miss Arnold.


(Alex is playing with trains and dinosaurs.)

Dinosaur: I'm not lost, that's my home, why did you take me away?
Bertie: I'm Bertie the bus, I drive on the road.

Dinosaur: Where are my brothers and sisters? (Mumble). Oh, there they are! My brothers and sisters!

Bertie: Where are you going, dinosaur?
Dinosaur: I’m eating up some leaves. Don’t say that again, Bertie.
(Alex plays silently for a bit.)
Alex: Look Daddy, that dinosaur’s climbing up the track to get to his family.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: They're walking. And that green dinosaur’s eating some leaves. And Bertie’s waiting for him to come back.
(Alex plays silently for a bit.)
Alex: I'm pretending.
Daddy: Yeah, you’re doing a good job of it.

Uh. Jelly. Fish.

(breakfast time)

Alex (watching Elmo's World): Um, Computer was bothering Drawer.

Alex (smiling, as he bounces his waffles up and down): The waffles are dancing.


Alex (to Daddy): Before you go can I give you a kiss and a hug? If I don't give you a kiss and a hug I will cry after you go to work.


(dinner time)

(Alex is complaining about a cut on his finger.)
Daddy: One time, I had a cut on my finger, and my mommy put cream on it --
Alex: Grandma?!

Daddy: Do you know who's my daughter?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: Who?
(Pause.)
Alex: Claire!
Mommy: That’s right!
Alex (to Daddy): And you're my son!

(Daddy takes a bite of a cracker.)
Alex: I don't want a cracker, no thank you.

Alex: Um, I can talk about your words.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: One time, I flew up in the sky, and there was a sandwich, and I ate it up, and I flew up in the clouds!

Daddy: If the waitress has a box of 250 toothpicks, and she drops them on the floor, and there are four left in the box, how many toothpicks are on the floor?
Alex: Two, one two three four, and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eleven, teen, sixteen, and, seventeen. That's it.

(Daddy, Alex, and Claire are pretending to be jellyfish.)
Mommy (to Claire): Are you a jellyfish too?
Claire: Uh. Jelly. Fish.


(Earlier, Alex fell down and knocked his head really hard on the floor. But now he’s feeling better.)
Daddy (to Alex, quietly): Tell Mommy you don't have a concussion. Say "I don't have a concussion, Mommy."
(Alex runs into the kitchen.)
Mommy: Are you okay, buddy?
Alex: Yeah, um, I -- I don't have a concussion.
(Mommy laughs.)
Alex: Daddy said that. Daddy said that to me.
(Alex runs back to Daddy.)
Alex: She laughed.

You smell yucky, Daddy.

(Alex and Claire are watching Elmo’s World.)
Elmo: Has anyone seen Drawer?
Alex: Right there! He's behind you, Elmo!!

(Alex and Claire are watching Sid the Science Kid.)
Alex: I do that at school. I use my muscles to eat a grape.


Alex: I got a sandwich.
Daddy: Oh, good!
Alex: I'm not gonna share it with (mumble), 'cause then I won't have it anymore.


(Alex weighs himself on the bathroom scale.)
Alex: I’m thirty-E.


(dinner time)

Alex: When I grow bigger, I can work on my computer.
Daddy: Yes, you can!
Alex: And can I go to work?
Daddy: Yeah, you can go to work too.
Alex: Go to work with Daddy?
Daddy: Yeah, you can work with Daddy.

Alex: Mommy, when I get bigger I can go to work with Daddy! And work on my computer!
Mommy: Yeah!


(Steam is rising from a pan on the stove.)
Alex: Mommy’s spraying water up in the air on the ceiling.


(dinner time)

Alex: Beep!
Daddy: Are you a microwave, Alex?
Alex: No, that’s the microwave.
Daddy: But I heard you say “beep”.
Alex: No, that’s the microwave, and I’m pretending to be the microwave.
Daddy: Oh, okay.

Daddy: Are you being silly?
Alex (pointing to Daddy, Mommy, Claire, and Grommie in turn): Yeah. You’re being silly and you’re being silly and you’re being silly and you’re being silly.
Daddy: Grommie’s being silly too?
Alex: Yeah. He’s making funny faces!

Alex: My back hurts!
Mommy: Yeah? Why?
Alex: Because I have to lay down.

Mommy: Did you have a moon pie at school today, Alex?
Alex: No.
Daddy: What did you eat?
Alex: I ate ketchup… and I ate chicken… and I ate pays – peas. What else did I eat, Mommy?


(Daddy is tossing Claire into the air. Claire is laughing. Alex is watching.)
Alex: Don’t do that to me, okay Daddy?


(Daddy is wrestling with Alex.)
Alex: You smell yucky, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Alex: You smell yucky.


(bed time)
Alex: Play in the backyard.
Daddy: Play cards?
Alex (mumbling): No play playroom play trains.
Daddy (mumbling): Play in the backyard play in the playroom play trains.
Alex (mumbling): Wake up Claire close my door.
Daddy (mumbling): Wake up Claire close your door.
(Alex mumbles unintelligibly.)
(Daddy mumbles unintelligibly.)
Alex: Now give me a kiss.
(Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Alex: Did I say “wake up Claire close my door”?
Daddy: Yeah, wake up Claire close my door.
Alex: I say wake up Claire close my door. Did I say that?
Daddy: Yeah, wake up Claire close my door.
(Alex mumbles something about going to sleep.)
Alex: That’s all of my words.

What holds this floor up?

Alex: You have a brown shirt on, Mommy.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Why?


Daddy: Hey Alex, I'm gonna go get a haircut, so I'm gonna give you a kiss now, okay?
Alex: Okay.
(Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Daddy: I love you.
Alex: Bye. What are you gonna watch there?


Alex: That's amazing.


Alex (looking out the front window at a boy riding in a wagon): He's riding in a wagon.
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: Why is he riding in the wagon?
Mommy: Because his daddy wants to pull him in the wagon.
(Alex watches a bit more.)
Alex: One day can I ride in the wagon?


Alex (flipping coasters): Mommy cooks dinner, Daddy sits on the couch, Alex goes on the stool, and Claire goes on the chair.


Daddy: You're a cute boy, Alex.
Alex: Thank you, Daddy.


Alex: But daddies don't have a tray. They can get down by themselves.
Daddy: Yeah, daddies don't have a tray.
Alex: But kids do. And sisters and brothers.


(upstairs)
Alex: What holds this floor up?

The bus is driving me nuts.

(snack time)

Alex: In the giraffe, I made a big mess, Daddy, and I told Mommy that’s what I wanted to play.

(Mommy brings out some plums.)

Claire: Apple!
Mommy: Plum.
Claire: Plum.

Claire: A – apple.
Mommy: Plum.
Claire: Apple.
Mommy: Plum.

Alex: When I drink water, Daddy, that makes that noise. That.
Daddy: What noise?
(Alex drinks his water.)
Alex: That noise.

Alex: If a mommy or daddy goes to work, and then they come home, they have to take their work clothes off, and then they have to put their home clothes on, Daddy.
Daddy: Why do they have to do that?
Alex: Because they – when they come home from work.
Daddy: Oh.
Claire: Daddy! Daddy?
Claire: I want more – oranges.

Alex: Tasha took my pea! Tasha did.
Daddy (chiding): Tasha!
Alex: Tasha’s always taking things. She always won’t go home in a minute. She’s still here and they won’t go home! My friends won’t go home!
Claire: All done. All done. All done.


(Mommy is getting ready to go for a run with Grommie.)
Alex: But when I’m bigger I can run with Grommie and Mommy! And Daddy and Claire can stay at home!
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And when I go on the town I can go see Ernie! I can do that! I can do all those things!


Alex: That’s cool.
Claire: Cool.


Alex: I’m tired, Claire.


(Daddy turns on a Thomas video.)

Claire: Thomas!

Claire (virtually any time Sir Topham Hatt, or anyone else wearing a hat, appears on screen): Hat.


Alex: We’re making some food, for the frog, and water, from the swimming pool for the frog.
Daddy: Oh, okay.


Alex (to the bus): You guys are drivin’ me nuts. Let’s stop.
Daddy: Who’s driving you nuts?
Alex: The bus is driving me nuts.


Alex: Bobo needs to go the animal shelter, and his back hurts. Right here.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: So we need to go to the animal shelter.
Daddy: Oh, okay.


(Dinner time. Claire has a baby spoon, because the toddler spoons are all dirty.)
Claire: Spoon. Spoon. Baby. Baby.


Alex: Can the cow dance please? The cow is really sad.
Daddy: Why is he sad?
Alex: Because he wants another song. May he have another song? Please? Please?
Daddy: Okay, I’ll play another song.
Alex: Okay. Cow, be happy because Daddy will play another song.


(Alex finishes doing the numbers puzzle with Mommy.)
Alex: I know my numbers, Daddy!!

Daddy (pointing to the eight): What’s that?
Alex: What is it?
Daddy: What is it?
Alex: Um… how ‘bout… (under his breath) six, seven… (aloud) how ‘bout eight!
Mommy and Daddy: Right!!

Mommy: You’re gonna be so bored in public school.
Alex: Yeah.


Alex: Daddy, there’s no room for me to get by!
Daddy (moving his chair out of the way): Oh no! What are you gonna do?
Alex (smiling): You just did it.


Alex: You forgot to wipe me!
Daddy: You want a wipe?
Alex: Yeah. I’m dirty, I’m a little bit dirty, so I need a wipe.


Alex: Claire, you’re funny.


Alex (singing): I hope that baby is for sale
(Pause.)
Alex: I just sing the baby song, Daddy!


Daddy: Did you exercise?
Alex: Yeah. I was exercising because my back hurt.


Claire: Shirt.
Daddy: Yeah, Daddy has a red shirt.
Daddy: What color is Daddy’s shirt?
Claire: Boo!


(Everyone is going up the stairs.)
Daddy: I'm gonna get there first!
Alex: I'm gonna get there first!
Alex: I got there first!
Mommy: I’m gonna get there second!
Alex: I got there second!
Daddy: I'm gonna get there third!
Alex: I already got there! I got there, everyone!


Alex (giving Daddy a hug): My dad!
Daddy: My Alex!
Alex: My dad! No I'm not your Alex, I’m Mommy's Alex.
Daddy: You're Mommy’s Alex?
Alex: Yeah, Mommy’s Alex, and Daddy’s Claire’s… baby!


Alex: Daddy, close your legs. Close your feet. And now I can climb up. Climb up this mountain. Climb up the big hill!


Alex: Can we do tickle, Daddy? Can you lie down like this?

My best friend is Angelina.

Alex: I need a show to watch for breakfast.
Daddy: Well, what did you watch so far?
(Alex looks confused.)
Daddy: What did you watch already? What have you watched?
Alex: Did you say “so far”?
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Um, yeah, I watched so far.


Alex: Claire, will you get my penguin from Christmas?!


(Daddy is talking to Ernie on the phone.)
Alex: Daddy, I need to tell you something.
Daddy (to Ernie): Can you hold on a minute?
Ernie: Yeah.
Daddy: What is it, Alex?
Alex: My best friend is Angelina.


Alex: Mommy, you know what my special friend is? Angelina. Angelina is my special friend.


(putting groceries away)

(Claire hands Daddy a box of couscous.)
Daddy: Couscous.
Claire: Coo-coo.

Alex (with a box of cake mix): Is this cake?
Mommy: Sort of.
Alex (to Daddy): This is sort of cake, Daddy.


Alex: Look up, so don’t look down, Daddy.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: I’m trying to fix your mouth.


(Alex is playing trains and making up stories about it.)
Alex (to Daddy): This is a new Thomas book.


Alex: Daddy, my legs are getting tired.
Daddy: Oh, your legs are getting tired?
Alex: No, my two legs. Both legs.
Daddy: Oh, okay.
Alex: My legs are really, really tired, so I’m gonna go upstairs and take a rest.

Alex: Daddy, you have to go to town in a minute, okay?

Why did he climb up there to walk on the ceiling? That’s not a good choice.

Alex: Do we have more paper towers? Paper – paper – what are these?
Daddy: Paper towels.
Alex: I always call them paper buildings.


(watching TV)

Alex: That boy was hanging up high on the ceiling, on that show.

Alex: He was up in the sky with Mr. Noodle!


Daddy: Did you have fun at school today?
Alex: Yeah.
Daddy: What did you do?
Alex: Um… I read books, and I dance.


Claire: Nuggets.
Alex: No it’s not nuggets, it’s chinuggets. It’s not nuggets. It’s not nuggets. It’s chinuggets.


Alex (looking up the stairs after Mommy took Claire up for nap): Claire, have a good nap up there.


(snack time)

Alex: Is there no school?

Claire: Daddy! Hair.
Daddy: My hair’s dry now.
Claire: Shirt.
Mommy: Green shirt, yeah.

Alex: She got – a new –
Daddy: You got a new magazine?
Alex: Yeah, a new magazine from Grandma!
Mommy: That’s right, you remembered!

(Alex has the little Ernie and Bert toys on his tray.)
Alex: There will not be any room for the stuff.
Daddy: Why not?
Alex: Because Ernie and Bert will be in the way.

Alex: Fork! I got fork.
Claire: Fork.
Alex: Fork.
Claire: Cake.
Alex: Cake.

Alex (sliding his fork into the sides of his tray): I’m makin’ a noise with my fork.
Daddy: Mm-hm.
Alex: See? Ding ding ding ding.
Claire (moving her fork too): Ding ding ding.
Alex: It goes like this, Claire.
(Mommy serves cake.)
Alex: Cake.
Claire Cake.
(All is quiet as the cake is eaten.)

Claire: Cake. Cake.
Alex: Claire said, “Cake. Cake. Cake.”
Daddy: She sure did.
Alex: Claire said "cake".
Claire: Cake.
Alex: I want more. Cake.
Mommy: That’s all the cake.
Alex: I want more. Banana.
Mommy: No banana. If you’re still hungry, I can give you some Goldfish.
Alex (very whiny): There’s more banana, Mommy.
Mommy: Well what I mean is we’re not gonna have any more banana for snack. Do you want some Goldfish?
Alex (very whiny): Nooo!
Mommy (sternly): Okay. You do not answer me that way.


(Alex is walking around with a blanket wrapped around him, just as Mommy had done a few minutes earlier.)
Alex: I did it, Daddy!
Daddy: What’d you do?
Alex: I put the blanket on me ‘cause I’m cold! I did it like Mommy!


(dinner time)

Mommy: Claire, do you have a dog?
Claire: No.
Alex (from the stool, where he’s washing hands): Yes, we have a dog.
Mommy: Claire, do you have a brother?
Claire: No.
Alex: I’m a – I’m a brother right here on the stool!

Mommy: Do you have a brother?
Claire: No.
Alex: Yes, you do have a brother! I’m a brother!
Claire: No. Brother.

Mommy: Claire? Do you have… a shirt?
Claire (touching her shirt): No.
Mommy: Do you have a head?
Claire (putting both hands on her head): No. Head.
Mommy: Do you have a nose?
Claire (touching her nose): No. Nose.
Mommy: Do you have eyes?
(Claire touches Mommy’s eyes.)
Alex: Do you have eyes, Claire?
Mommy: Claire, do you have eyes? Do you have eyes, Claire?
Alex: Do you have eyes?
(Claire touches her own eyes.)
Mommy: Claire, are you smart?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Are you cute?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Are you silly?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Are you smiley?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Are you touching your ear?
(Claire, who is touching her ear, does not respond.)
Alex: Are you touching your ear? Are you touching your ear, Claire?
Mommy: Are you ticklish?
Mommy (tickling Claire): Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle!
(Claire squirms and laughs.)

Alex: I don’t like the beans what’s in this pasta. The beans.
Daddy: Oh okay.
Alex: I like to eat just the pasta. And I like to eat the tomato.
Alex: Tuh, tuh, tuh, tomoato. Tuh. What does it start with? What does it start with, Daddy? Tomato.
Daddy: What do you think?
Alex: I don’t know.
Daddy: It starts with a T.
Alex: T! It starts with a T.

Alex: A “B” starts with Bert. Bert.
Daddy: That’s right!

(Alex has just asserted that Bert is walking on the ceiling.)
Alex: Why did he climb up there to walk on the ceiling? That’s not a good choice.
Daddy: That’s right.
Alex: Tell him to come down. Tell him to come down, Daddy.
Daddy: Come down please, Bert.
Alex: He won’t come down. Tell him again and he listens.
Daddy: Come down please, Bert.
Alex: He’s not coming down again. He always stays up on the ceiling when he goes, walks, up there.


(bed time)

Daddy: Can I give you a kiss?
Alex: Yeah.
(Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Daddy: Night-night. I love you.
(Daddy starts to leave.)
Alex: I forgot to say the words!

(Alex says the words.)
Alex: Now give me a kiss.
(Daddy gives Alex a kiss.)
Daddy: Night-night. I love you.
(Daddy starts to leave.)
Alex: Did I say “play in the backyard”?
Daddy: Yes, you did.
Alex: Okay.

Grommie… Daddy… Mama… Daddy… Yay!

(Claire wants more waffles.)
Alex: Do we have more waffles?
Daddy: She has more on her plate.
Alex: Tell her to eat it.
Daddy: What?
Alex: Tell her to eat it and then you eat yours. Can we play that game?


(Alex and Claire are watching the squirrel through the back door. Alex wants to go outside to see the squirrel.)
Daddy: If we opened the door, he'd run away, 'cause he thinks people are scary. And he thinks dogs are very scary.
(Pause.)
Alex: I'm not scary.


Alex: Let's jump, Claire. Let's jump. You wanna jump?
(Claire jumps with Alex.)


Claire: Uh wawa.
Claire (getting it): Ah get it.


Alex (to Claire): Get closer to me so I can laugh at you.


Alex: Claire, I'm sorry that I broke the track.

Alex: Daddy? Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Alex.
Alex: I'm sorry that I broke the track.


Alex (playing with the toy clock): Tick tock, tick tock.


(Claire takes Alex’s dinosaur.)
Alex (whining): That’s my dinosaur. Claire has my dinosaur from the barber shop! She has my special treat.


Alex: Claire, you play on the stove, and I will play on a different stove, and Daddy, you play on the machine . . .
(Alex continues.)
Alex: . . . and I will talk on the telephone, and I will see if the clock was tocking, ticking tocking, and then I will eat after I get the stove off the (mumble). Okay?
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: You do that with me, okay, Daddy?


(Claire is making the monkey dance to the music.)
Claire: Uh dance.
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Monk!

(Alex gets another monkey and makes him dance too.)

Claire: Uh dancing!
Daddy: Yeah!
Claire: Monk!
Daddy: Yeah!

Alex’s monkey: I’m dancing on your face, Claire.

(The music stops.)
Alex: What happened?
(Claire restarts the music.)

Alex (swinging the monkey): The monkey’s swinging, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: That’s how monkeys swing.

Alex: I fell down.
Daddy: You did?
Alex: Yeah, because I was spinning around with my monkey.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: I fell down with my monkey.
(Claire lies on the floor with Alex. After a moment, Alex gets up.)
Alex: Let’s get up, Claire. You wanna get up? Let's get up from we fell down on the floor. Let’s get up and walk on the floor.
(Claire gets up.)
(Claire gets on her car.)
Alex: Bye Claire. You drive. See you later, my monkey’s gonna go (mumble).
(Alex walks off with his monkey.)
Claire: Ah monk. Bye. Bye.

Alex (walking into the other room): Claire. Drive the car down there with me. But be careful.
Claire: Ah-wah!
Alex (from the other room): I’m going for a walk now. My monkey wants to go for a walk now. I’ll be back in a minute, I’ll make dinner.
(Claire’s monkey once again dances to the music.)

(Alex has returned.)
Alex: Haha! Look at my monkey, Daddy!
Daddy: What about it?
Alex: He’s funny.
Daddy: Yeah.


(dinner time)

Claire: Uh fry.
(Mommy gives Claire a French fry.)
Claire: Hot.

(Alex eats a French fry.)
Alex: Yummy.
Alex: This is delicious, Mommy.

Alex: Is this for the French fries, Daddy? This sauce?
Daddy: Yes. It’s called ketchup.
Alex: Ketchup.

(Claire is eating French fries with ketchup.)
Claire: I like it.

Claire: Bakoo broccoli.

Alex: I like chicken.

Alex: Thanks, Daddy.
Daddy: What is it, buddy?
Alex: You helped me. And I said “Thanks, Daddy.”

Alex: I see your big broccoli.

Alex (picking up a piece of broccoli): Look at this broccoli! It’s upside-down!
Mommy: Silly broccoli.
Alex (putting the broccoli down): I’ll try a different one.

Claire: I want more fries. Please.

Alex: I don’t like this – stick, hanging down. In my mouth. I don’t like it.
Mommy: You don’t like what, honey?
Alex: That stick is hanging down, in my mouth.
Mommy: Drink some water, that might help. You might have something caught in your teeth.
(Alex drinks some water.)
Alex: It did help. Thanks, Daddy.
Daddy (smiling at Mommy): You’re welcome.

Alex: I’m gonna scream, Daddy.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I’m gonna scream.
Daddy: Please don’t.
(Claire screams.)
(Alex screams.)
Claire: I scream. I scream. I scream.
Claire: Ah!!! I scream.
Claire: Ah!!! I scream.
Claire: Ah!!! I scream.
Mommy: You’re silly.
Claire: Ah!!! I scream.
Mommy: You’re silly.
Alex: Claire, we don’t scream in the house.
Claire: Ah!!!
Alex: We scream outside.
Claire: Ah!!!

Alex: Reese was being silly at school today.

Alex: What’s that by the ketchup?
Mommy: Tartar sauce.
Alex: Whoa. Tartar sauce, okay. I don’t like tartar sauce.

Claire: All done. All done.
Mommy: You’re all done? Did you try your fish?
Claire: No. All done.

Mommy: You wanna sit here with us while we finish?
Claire: No. All done.
Mommy: Are you cute?
Claire: All done.
Mommy: Are you cute?
Claire: No. All done.
Mommy: Do you love Mommy?
Claire: No. All done.
Mommy: Do you love Daddy?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Do you love Grommie?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Um… Do you like school?
Claire: No.
Alex: You like school, Claire.
Mommy: I know. She’s saying "no" to everything.
Mommy: May I eat your French fries?
Claire: No.
Mommy: May I eat your fish?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Um… did you know I love you?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Um… are you smiling?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Is your nose running?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Do you need a tissue?
Claire: No.
Mommy: May I have your French fries?
Claire: No.
Mommy: Are you gonna eat them?
(Claire nods.)
Mommy: Yeah? Okay.
(Claire eats a French fry.)
Mommy: You silly girl.
Claire (giving a French fry to Mommy): Aw eat.
(Mommy eats the French fry.)
Mommy: Thank you.
(Claire laughs.)
(Claire gives Mommy another French fry.)

Claire: All done.
Claire: All done.
Claire: All done.
Claire: All done.
Mommy: You ready to get down?
(Claire nods.)

Mommy: Claire’s water.
Claire: Cuh’s. Uh Cuh’s.
Alex: Mine’s is right here.

(Mommy blows on Claire’s face.)
(Claire laughs.)
Claire (requesting a repeat): Ah foo.

Daddy: What’d you do at the barber shop?
Daddy: Okay, you don’t have to tell me.
(Alex kicks the table absently.)
Alex: Daddy, can I kick the table? Can I kick the table?
Daddy: No.

Alex: I like your haircut, Alex.
Alex (smiling): Thanks!
Daddy: What’d you watch?
Alex: I watched, um, a new show there. I watched – um – there was a monster on that show, but – he was nice. He was nice, and – and he put – that girl to bed. And… she went to bed. She went to bed, that girl went to bed. On the TV.
Mommy: You know what that movie was called?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: What?
(Pause.)
Mommy: You want me to tell you? “Monsters, Inc.”
Alex: Monsters, Inc.
Mommy: That’s right.

Claire: Grommie… Daddy… Mama… Daddy… Yay!

Claire: Ah Daddy, Mama, Yay!

Uh Ernie?

(playing in the playroom)

(Claire sees a picture of Bert.)
Claire: Bert.
Daddy: Yeah, that's Bert.
Claire: Uh Ernie?

Mommy (to Claire): Mommy's the best.
Alex: Mommy's in the whole world.
Mommy: You're cute.
Alex: I love my mommy in the whole world.

Claire: Uh chair.
Mommy: You want the frog chair?
Claire: Uh frog chair.

Mommy: I think I need to go cook dinner, what do you think about that?
(Long pause.)
Daddy: I think that's terrific. What do you think Alex?
Alex: I don't know.
Claire: Uhh dinner.

Claire: Uh hungry.
Claire: Uh hungry.
Claire: Uh hungry.
Claire: Uh hungry.


Alex (shaking his hand scoldingly at Mommy): Tch! Tch! Tch!
Mommy: What does that mean?
Alex: Um. Be careful.
(Mommy laughs.)
Mommy: What does that mean?
Alex: You're gonna get tah-mout!
Mommy: Tah, mout?
Alex: Timeout!
Alex: You didn't listen to me because you dropped your pineapple.
(Mommy laughs.)
Mommy: You dropped your pineapple.
Alex: I don't have a pineapple. I have a green bean over there.
(Mommy laughs.)

And um, if a tree falls in the forest, if there's no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

(breakfast time)

Claire: Aw more waffle.

Claire: Aw more cereal.

Claire: Aw more wawa.


(Alex and Claire are playing in the sandbox, when a yell is heard from a neighboring yard.)
Alex: What was that? Was that a boy? Or a girl?
Daddy: I don’t know.
Alex: I think that was my neighbor.


Daddy: Alex, what did one taco shell say to the other taco shell?
Alex: Um, maybe when I was a soccer chell, um I would go um to a soccer shell, who was mad, to other shocker shell, (mumble), and he was mad at the other shocker shell.


(Dinner time, but Alex is not yet at the table, because he’s looking through the picture cards.)

Alex: He's sad because he wants a toy.

Alex: This is a banana for someone to eat.

Alex: Eyes, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah, eyes.
Alex: One, two.
Alex: A cata -- what's this?
Daddy: That… is a caterpillar.
Alex: Caterpillar. That's a hard word, Daddy.
Alex: Telephone, Daddy. Mommy got – Mommy got a new – she got a new picture with a telephone on it.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Look at these clouds, Daddy. That's where the airplanes go and fly through the clouds, and go under the clouds, and we can't see them.

Alex: A nest.
Mommy: That’s right, what's in the nest?
Alex: Um, eggs, and birds, live in there.
Mommy: That’s right.
Mommy: What comes outta the eggs?
Alex: Um, babies!
Mommy: Baby birds, that’s right.
Alex: Yeah baby birds.
Alex: Pumpkin.
Alex: Girls.
Mommy: They're sisters.
Alex: Sisters
Alex: This is a potato!
Mommy: Good job.
Alex: A potato, Daddy.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Boy.
Mommy: What does he have on?
Alex (feeling his own coat): This.
Mommy: What is it?
Alex: A boy.
Mommy: Yeah but what does he have on?
Alex: A coat!
Mommy: Right.
Claire (eating at the table, but paying close attention): Coat.
Alex (looking at a picture of a rocket): Jacket.
Claire: Jacket.
Alex: Um no, sorry it's not that. Um, a rocket!
Mommy: Right.
Claire: Rocket!
Alex: And, hand!
Claire: Hand.
Alex: That's it! There's no more.
(Pause.)
Alex: May you get those cards from up there and I can do the other ones? What we have here?
Claire: Uh cards.
(Mommy gets the other cards for Alex.)
Alex: You can have those, Claire, I'll give you one.
Mommy: Oh don't give her one, her hands are a little bit messy.

(Alex puts a card, with a picture of a truck on it, on the table for Claire to look at.)
Claire: Truck. Trucka.
Mommy: Truck. Why is she putting As on the end of her words?
Claire: Trucka.
Mommy: It's a truck.
Claire: Truck.
Alex: I wanna do the rest. Bird, hat. Which one does Daddy want and Mommy want? Do you want this one, Daddy?
(Alex hands Daddy the picture of the bird.)
Daddy: Oh I got the hat!
(Alex hands Mommy the picture of the hat.)
Mommy: I got the bird!
Alex: You got the hat, and you got the bird, Daddy.
Mommy's hat picture (flying around): Tweet tweet!
Daddy (putting bird picture on head): I'm gonna put this on my head!
(Alex laughs.)

(Later, Alex is at the table, and Claire is playing with the cards.)
(Claire shows a card to Alex.)
Claire: Lion.
Alex: Lion.
Alex: I didn't get tomato sauce on it.
Alex (to Daddy): I didn't get tomato sauce on the card.
Daddy: Good.
(Claire shows another card to Alex.)
Claire: Fish. Fish.
Alex (to Claire): After -- after I drinking my water. I was thirsty.
(Alex drinks his water.)
Claire: Ah-wah? Ah-wah? Ah-wah? Ah-wah?
Alex: I'm done. Um, that's a fish. Can I see?
Claire: I see.
Alex: Okay.
Claire: I see!
Alex: Okay, I just said. Get another card, oh they're on the box.
(Claire shows another card to Alex.)
Claire: Seh-kee.
Alex: Star.
Claire: Stah.
(Claire picks up another card.)
Claire: Seh-kee.
Alex: Yeah that was. That was the fire I was looking for. The fire engine. The fi – yeah, the fire engine.
Claire: Juh engine.
(Claire sits on the box.)
Daddy: Claire, don't sit on the end, because you'll just fall off.
Alex: Can I see? Bring it over here.
(Claire brings the next card to Alex.)
Alex: Monkey.
Claire: Monkey.
Alex: Monkey. Climbing up a tree.
(Claire gets another card.)
Claire: Tree.
Alex: Tree.
Claire: Tree. Tree.
Alex: It's a tree. Don't tell me again.

(Claire shows another card to Alex.)
Alex: Children.
Claire: Children.

Daddy: Alex, if monkeys could drive cars, would they drive fast or slow?
Alex: They would drive on my wall, and they would drive wall, and they would drive slowly, and they would drive on my ladder, and they would drive slow, and they would drive fast, and they would drive slow, and they would drive fast again, and they would break the ladder up!

Alex: When Daddy was a eye, what would you do with a soccer shell?
Daddy: Um, I would eat it.
Alex: And you would go down to the Island of Sodor?
Alex: And um, if a tree falls in the forest, if there's no one to hear it, does it make a sound?
Mommy: Good job, honey!
Alex: Was it a sock -- a soccer shell? Maybe it was!

(Claire wants a Hershey’s kiss.)
Claire: Aw chocka.
Claire: Please?

Claire: I want chocka. Please?
Mommy: You hear her?
Daddy: Mm-hm.
Claire: Please?

Daddy (to Alex): What does chocolate taste like?
Alex: Candy. And my Nemo candy has ingredients on it, and it has peanuts in it. And if I eat peanuts, Mommy will take me to the doctor, and they will take me to the hospital, and they will call the ambulance, and I will ride in the ambulance, and I will go to the hospital, and they will give me a shot!
Daddy: Yeah?
Alex: Mm-hm!


Daddy (singing): I'm a daddy, and my name is Daddy
Alex (singing): And my name is Alex… all, day, long!


(bath time)
Alex: Can you get in the bathtub and you be a giant when you take your clothes off?

(Alex pours water into Dragon's mouth.)
Dragon: I like water. This is yummy.

Elmo: But that's my seat to drive. I drive it every day, it's my seat.


(bed time)
Alex: I will say your words first.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: We will get up, and come back upstairs, and get my door, and you will take my door downstairs so I can go out it, and I will go out the other door, and out the other door, and out the other door, and out the other door, and out the other door, and out the other door, and out the other door, and out the other door, and that's a circle!

Claire drive the car / Claire drive the car / Claire drive the car all day

(breakfast time)

Alex: There’s a little black on my waffle where Daddy cooked it over there on the toaster.

Alex: My water was making Super Why songs.

Alex: George got it dirty so he’s cleaning it up. So he can go bowling.


Alex: Buh buh buh. That starts with book and baby!


Alex: I’m gonna sing a different song about the eye ran off the head.


Alex: That’s a different one. That’s a little one, so I’m gonna sing a different one.
Alex (singing): Daddy all the way
Alex (singing): Daddy all the way
Alex (singing): Daddy all the way
Alex (singing): Claire all the way
Alex (singing): Claire all the way
Alex (singing): Claire drive the car
Alex (singing): Claire drive the car
Alex (singing): Claire drive the car all day
Alex (singing): Alex drives the truck
Alex (singing): Alex drives the truck
Alex (singing): Alex drives the truck
Alex (singing): Mommy drives the boat
Alex (singing): Mommy drives the boat
Alex (singing): Mommy drives the boat all day
Alex (singing): Grommie
Alex (singing): Crock-a-dock
Alex (singing): He just talk
Alex (singing): He just – he was (mumble) up to the window
Alex (singing): So, Daddy (mumble)
Alex (singing): So… all that was. But. That – drott was all the mott
Alex (singing): He was (mumble mumble) all the friends
Alex: Oops. I sing it wrong. So I sing it right.

(A little later, Alex is singing again. The following is only a snippet from the middle of his song.)
Alex (singing): Alex drives a car
Alex (singing): Mommy drives a boat
Alex (singing): Daddy was swimming after Grommie
Alex (singing): So Alex was swimming after Mommy


(Alex is looking at the furnace.)
Alex: Oh, the monster. His long neck. His long neck all up to the ceiling. That’s scary.


Alex: Is Daddy watching the bear?
Mommy: Oh, I don’t know. Let’s find out.
Alex: Oh he took it back to the store.
Mommy: He did? Did he finish it?
Alex: Yeah.


(Claire is playing quietly with Elmo and Grover.)
Claire (looking around): Abby? Abbyyy…!

Claire (pointing to Grover): Shoes. Sock. Shoes. Sock. Shoes. Sock.


Daddy: Pick me up.
Alex: No, you’re too heavy. You pick me up.


Alex: I put all the blueberries in my mouth!


(Daddy is in Claire’s way.)
Claire: Uh move. Uh move. Uh move. Please.


(Claire and Alex are fighting, because both of them want to go with Mommy when she goes to the bathroom.)
Mommy: Okay. Just forget it. I won’t go to the bathroom right now.
Alex: I want you to go to the bathroom!
Alex (crying): I want Mommy to go to the bathroom!


Alex: Oh! Daddy’s hungry, here’s a hot dog.
Daddy: Thank you.
Alex: There’ll be no more.


(dinner time)

(Alex and Claire each have a cup of tomato sauce for dipping.)

Alex: Tomato in a cup!

Alex: Mommy put tomato in my cup!

(Claire pours tomato sauce on her calzone.)
Claire: I did it!

Claire (through a mouth full of calzone): I ike it!
Mommy: You like it? You’re so cute.
Alex: I like it too.
Claire: Like it.

Alex: Sometimes for dinner, I want Daddy to eat his first, and sometimes for snack, I want Claire to eat hers, cookies, first.

Mommy: Claire’s done.
Claire: All done.
Mommy: Claire’s full.
Claire: I’m full.
Mommy: Claire is a smart cookie!
Claire: Ah.
Mommy: Are you smart, Claire?
Claire: No.
(Mommy laughs.)
Mommy: Claire, are you smart?
Claire: No.

Alex: I’m mad at you, Daddy.


(getting ready for songs)
Alex: There was a dog, and he bumped into a door.
Mommy: Oh my goodness, then he fell on the floor!
(Alex cracks up.)
Alex: What you say – Mommy, may you say it again?
(This exchange is repeated many times.)


(bed time)
Alex: First I’ll say it your way, then I’ll say it my way.
Daddy: Okay.
Alex: Um, we’ll get up, and go down your hair, and jump off of the counter …
(Alex continues.)

Everything's boddering me.

(Grommie is chasing his tail.)
Alex: Grommie made a circle.


Alex: I was breathing, and then I coughed.


(Grommie is licking Alex’s hand.)
Alex: Grommie’s tryin’ to make me feel better.


Alex: Everything’s boddering me.


Alex: My car’s broken.
Mommy: Oh, does it need to go to the repair shop?
Alex: Charlie Brown’s gonna fix it.


Alex: Grommie, don’t lick my stuff.


(Mommy’s and Daddy’s cars are parked in the driveway.)
Alex: What happened to our cars?
Daddy: Mommy moved them. But that’s okay, we can just walk over to them.
Alex: Look at Mommy’s car.
Mommy: Yeah, isn’t it silly?
Alex: It’s like a monster.


Alex: Mommy said I can’t eat the Nemo candy because it doesn’t have ingredients on it, but I can have one piece of chocolate after lunch.


Alex: Mommy, we put paper towels in the trash. Um, in trash. Um, in trash. In trashes. Um, in trash.
Mommy: That’s right, we put them in the trash.


Alex: There’s no cake there.
Mommy: No, there’s no cake at the party.
Alex: No cake, no cupcakes, no ice cream… just cookies.


Alex: Claire was talking funny, Mommy.
Mommy: She was?
Alex: Yeah. She was saying, “Please?” and I said “Not right now, I ate it all!”
(Alex laughs.)

Alex’s toast (as it flies around): I’m a stocking!
Claire: Ah-wah.
Alex: I’m playing with my toast things. They’re funny and they’re playing together… like, hide and seek.

See?

(Alex is watching Sid the Science Kid.)
Alex (looking at Sid’s grandma’s car): That’s like Sir Toppin’s car. Sir Toppin Hatt’s car.


Alex: Claire, after we watch, ah, Elmo, you wanna watch Super Why with me?


Alex (to Daddy): Super Why’s going in a comic book!


(Alex is making the Little People toys dance.)
Alex: They’re dancing. The tiger and the elephant are dancing.
Claire (making her Little People man dance): Eh dancing.


Alex: I was tryin’ to touch the couch.
Daddy: Oh, were you successful?
Alex: Daddy, I know how to make a duck. I know how to make a duck, like you!
(Alex makes a duck with his fingers.)
Daddy: Oh look at that, you really do!


(Alex and Claire are helping to unload groceries.)
Alex (finding a container of sour cream): Sow cream!
Mommy: Yeah.
Alex: I know what sow cream is now.


Claire: Ah-wah!
Alex (from behind the bathroom door): I’m in the bathroom, Claire! I locked the door, so no one can get in!


Alex (showing Daddy some art he made at school): Daddy, look at my picture! I have fish. And I glued them on my fishbowl. And when I went to school next time, Miss Gibson liked my picture.
Daddy: Oh, nice!


Mommy: Alex took his clothes off all by himself!
Alex: I’m gonna tell Daddy!
(Alex runs, naked, into the other room where Daddy’s sitting.)
Alex: Daddy, I took my PJs off all by myself!
Daddy: Good job! Look at you! You did that all by yourself?
Alex: Yeah! Can I give you a hug?
Daddy: Yeah!


(Alex and Claire are playing nicely together for a change.)
Alex: We’re not fighting anymore, Daddy.


Alex (working the Barney jigsaw puzzle): Claire, may you help me? I can’t do this by myself.


Alex: Um, we watched a new Curious George, and on that Curious George, Curious George went bowling.
Daddy: Just like Alex went bowling!
Alex: Yeah, and there was no nap, and when I always had a nap after bowling, Daddy told me, when, it’s dark, we have to go to bed. Yeah. After bowling.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: Yeah after we went bowling.


Alex: On this Science Kid, and after they sing outside and talk about, everything, um, and after they come inside, um, after they sit down, um, and Gerald says “Where’s my teacher, where’s my teacher?”
(Alex laughs.)


(Claire hears Mommy pulling into the garage.)
Claire: Mama!
Claire: Mama!
Claire (to Daddy): Daddy? Daddy? Mama!


Claire: Uh dance.


Claire: Uh mask.


Claire: Uh Elmo.


(snack time)

Claire (pointing to Graham Bunnies): Uh bunny.

Claire (pointing to napkins): Uh napkin.

Claire (handing her snack cup to Daddy): Snack.
Daddy: You want more snack? There’s more cheese in your cup.
Claire (looking into the cup): Oh.
(Pause.)
Claire (still looking in her cup): Cheese.
(Pause.)
(Claire gives a definitive nod, and walks away.)


(Claire wants Daddy to put the lid on her snack cup.)
Claire: Uh on.


Claire: Ah-chah! Ah-chah!
Daddy: Ah-chah!
Claire: Ah-chah! Ah-chah! Ah-chah! Ah-chah!


(Claire beeps the horn on her car.)
Claire: Bee-beet!

(Claire is playing with her car.)
Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Claire?
Claire: Car!
Daddy: Car! Are you playing with your car?
Claire: No.


(Claire wants Daddy to help fit the dashboard back into its slot on her car.)
Claire: Uh fit.


(Claire finds Alex’s pajamas.)
Claire: Ah-wah!
Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes Claire?
Claire (handing the pajamas to Daddy): Ah-wah!


(Claire finds the tray to the baby doll’s high chair.)
Claire: Baby. Baby. Baby. Baby.
Daddy: That’s for the baby, that’s right.
Claire: On. On. Baby. Baby bee. Baby. Bay… Baby.
(Claire wanders around, apparently looking for her baby doll.)
Claire: Baby. Baby. Baby. Baby. Baby. Baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Uh baby. Baybaybaybay. Uh baby.


Claire: Uh see. Daddy?
(Daddy looks up, and sees Claire wearing Mommy’s crocs, with a big grin on her face.)
Claire: Uh see.
Daddy: Look at you, you’re wearing Mommy’s shoes!
(Claire walks around in Mommy’s shoes, still grinning, and making sure Daddy is watching.)
Claire (pointing at her foot): Uh foot. Uh foot. Uh foot.


Claire: Uh wah-woo. Uh wawa. Uh wawa.
Claire: Daddy?
Daddy: Yes, Claire.
Claire: Uh wawa.
Daddy: You want me to get it for you?
(Claire nods. Daddy gets Claire her water cup.)

Claire (looking at Daddy, and holding her cup up to the water dispenser): Uh more. Wawa.

Claire: Uh more. Wawa. Daddy?
(Daddy looks at Claire.)
Claire: Uh more. Wawa.


Claire: Oh see. Baby! Bose. Bose. Bose.
(Claire shows the dish towel, which has bears on it, to her baby.)
Claire: Uh see bose.
Claire: See?
(Claire continues to show the dish towel to her baby.)


Alex: I got some things from Kate. Mommy checked the candy out and there was no….
(Pause.)
Mommy: What?
Alex: Tell me, Mommy.
Mommy: There were no ingredients listed.
Alex: No ‘gredients, so I can’t eat them.


Claire: Eh Daddy.
Daddy: I’m Daddy.
Claire: Eh Daddy.
Daddy: What about Daddy? You talkin’ ‘bout me?
Claire: No.


(bath time)

Alex: Can you make funny hair?

Cookie Monster: I'm the flying Cookie Monster.

You're nuffing. You're just Daddy!

Alex: Next time when I was at school, I was on Miss Arnold’s lap, and Miss Arnold called, "Thoomass, Alex dropped his Elly, can you get it?", and Thomas gave my Elly to me.


(Alex bosses Claire around.)
Alex: Now, you walk like this.
Alex: And then you go that way.
Alex: No, like this.
Alex: That's not it.


Alex: Juju gave me a kiss.
Juju (giving Claire two kisses): Mah. Mah.
(Juju gives Claire a hug.)
Claire: Uh hug.
Daddy: Aw, did Juju give you a hug?
Alex: I want Juju to give me a hug.
(Juju gives Alex a hug.)


(in the garage)
Alex: What's up there?
Daddy: That's the ceiling.
Alex: What's that thing by the wall?
Daddy: That's the crawlspace.
Alex: Yeah. It looks like a picture.


(snack time)

Alex: Daddy, I'm having snack in my chair with my coat on!
Daddy: Yeah!
Alex: By the door.
Daddy: Yeah.
Alex: And I'm having juice.
Daddy: You're having juice?
Alex: That's my special treat.
Daddy: That is a special treat.

Alex: Mommy, you put too much juice in my cup.
Mommy: I did?
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Well you don't have to drink it all.
Alex: Yeah.
Mommy: Yeah?
Alex: I did. I drinked it all.


Daddy: Rawwwrrrr!
Alex: I’m the monster!
Daddy: I'm the turtle.
Alex: No.
Daddy: I'm the fish. Glub glub.
Alex: No.
Daddy: What am I?
Alex: You're nuffing. You're just Daddy!


Alex: My Dad is funny.


Alex: My Dad is the best.
Daddy: Aw, thanks Alex.
Alex: That was on Science Kid.
Daddy: Oh.
Alex: Sorry.


Alex (to Claire): This is my tissue. And I use it to wipe my nose. That's right Claire, if you get a tissue, you wipe your nose. You have to listen to Mommy.


Daddy: Alex, if you could have two taco shells, or one giant green monkey, which would you choose?
Alex: Mmm, nothing. I told him there was one more taco shell, and he got it.
Daddy: Who got it?
Alex: The monkey.


Alex: Claire's getting timeout! And me – and Mommy and Daddy are staying with Alex! I like that, Mommy.


Alex: Daddy, I sang a song!
Daddy: Wow!
Alex: I sing a song on the potty!

Claire's talking to the trash.

Alex: Can I – are you going somewhere, Mommy?
Mommy: Yeah. I'm going to work.
Alex: Can – can I give you a hug and a kiss?


(Alex is admiring Sabrina’s frog toy.)
Alex: When I was a cat, can I play with that frog?
Daddy: Yeah, when you’re a cat, you can play with it.
Alex: But I'm not a cat today, but Sabrina’s a cat, but, Bradley’s a cat.


(Alex has been singing – mostly gibberish.)
Alex: I sing good songs.
Daddy: Yeah, I like it.
Alex: There's no more songs in that song.


(Alex is sitting in Daddy’s lap while Daddy puts Alex’s shoes on.)
Alex: Hurry up, Daddy. Hurry up because poop’s getting in your lap.


(snack time)
Claire: Trash. Trash. Trash.
Alex: Claire’s talking to the trash.
(Alex laughs.)
Daddy: What's she saying to the trash?
Alex: “Trash. Come out here and eat snack!”
(Alex laughs.)


Alex: If you – when you have too many stairs, you get to the top, of a different stair.


(dinner time)

Alex: Onion and bunion.
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: Onion and bunion.
(Alex laughs.)

(Alex is squinting.)
Alex: Look at me. I'm smiling. I'm smiling and you can't even see me. Because it’s time –
(Alex laughs.)
Alex: I was talking like a frog.

Alex: If you had two million dollars and you had a hair in it, and I could have horses in mine, (mumble) (mumble) pasta?

(Alex asks for more pasta.)
Mommy: That's all we have.
Alex: If that's all the food we have, then we have to get some more from the grocery store.


Alex: Daddy, I read my book on the potty all by myself!
Daddy: Oh good! I like that!
Alex: I was waiting for some pee-pee.


Alex: Can I go play with Claire and then we put my PJs on.